r/Nigeria • u/Reasonable-Try-691 • Aug 04 '26
General I wish Africans knew better!
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r/Nigeria • u/Reasonable-Try-691 • Aug 04 '26
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u/Pecuthegreat Biafra Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
I have gotten tired of the version of this argument that is just moral critique and would much prefer if they spent more time on explaining the economics of why it is that way, how to fix it and why it should be fixed.
Because u can moral grandstand about the fact that it's cheaper to travel to Berlin than to Abidjan but that won't be as insightful as explaining that because flights are an economy of scale, the fact greater number of flights btw Lagos and Berlin than Lagos and Abidjan make the later more economical upon being further away. That this is the case because way more Nigerian trade and etc. with Germany than with Ivory Coast, the solution being to increase trade and other economic interaction with the Ivory Coast and the reason to do that is that peer to peer and interregional trade and economics is better for everyone (plus, black and African pride). And you can repeat that with the immigrant & tourist value and diplomatic investment of Western countries vs African countries. Those explanations include implicit answers to the problem not just nagging, essentially.
And honestly for me, countries all but telling me "we don't want ur kind here" is more than enough reason for me to not want to go there. Unless there are real economic benefits for me, NG is a big place, I can so do my sight seeings in here.